Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:00:46 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What chipsets on the Bt848 cards ? Message-ID: <199804191900.VAA02145@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199804191657.SAA12457@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Apr 19, 98 06:57:31 pm"
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In reply to Luigi Rizzo who wrote:
> I was wondering if people can tell me what teletext chip is present on
> their Bt848-based cards. Can you people look for chips marked
>
> SAA....
>
> and tell me what you have ?
>
> I have a few hauppauge's (1997) and they all use a SAA5246 for teletext
> decoding. I have written a small decoder application for this chip.
>
> I think i have heard that some more modern card use the SAA5284, which
> is a more powerful device in that it can capture data at full line
> speed. If that is available on some card, I'd love to know. You might
> get the software written for your card in return :)
Have you seen the stuff done for Linux (bttv) that uses the bt848 to
grap the VBI info and then decode teletext from the sampled lines ??
THAT is a cool concept, and a good job done!
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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